But report could not establish safe-limit price as guide for avoiding exposure
SATURDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Those inexpensive earrings you bought from a hip young street artist may be good for your wallet but bad for your ears and skin.
A new report finds that many pairs of...

Dermatologists offer tips to avoid nickel-induced dermatitis
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- For the estimated 82 percent
of women with pierced ears, earrings are an important fashion accessory
that many women wear, and change, daily. However, a new study suggests that
women may...

...workplace. BAR values were determined for the following substances: acrylonitrile, soluble barium compounds, beryllium and its inorganic compounds and nickel and its compounds, plus o-toluidine and vinyl chloride.
As every year, once the current list has been submitted to the Federal Minister for Labour...

...t from HIV/AIDS in developing countries and despite promises by G8 countries that those diseases would receive more funding. At the same time, about a nickel out of every dollar channeled to health assistance goes to system-wide health support like funding for new clinics, doctor training and prevention pr...

...the market which typically deliver one type of power option, Enovate's Medical Carts offer multiple power options such as hot-swappable Lithium-Ion, nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH), or the standard Seal Lead Acid (SLA).
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...n the market which typically deliver one type of power option, Enovate's Medical Carts offer multiple power options such as hot-swappable Lithium-Ion, nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH), or the standard Seal Lead Acid (SLA).
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...port also discusses pollutants that were transferred across national borders. The majority of these consisted of metals such as lead, zinc, copper and nickel compounds, mainly sent to recycling facilities. A small number of other chemicals, such as sulfuric acid, phosphorus, and xylenes, were also sent acro...

...n Gary Newman and Dana Walden will receive the Gil nickel Humanitarian Award, presented to them by Kiefer Su...Garcia, Edward James Olmos and Gil Nickel. The Gil nickel Humanitarian Award was created in memory of Gil Nickel, proprietor of Far Niente, nickel &...

...shot testing there, the newspaper used a comparative risk model to label the area around the school as a high-pollution zone, identifying chromium and nickel as the pollutants of concern.
The Allegheny County Health Department took air samples at Highlands High School in Natrona Heights, wher...

...taff and other health care professionals is also funded by the Campini Foundation, with additional monies from the George H. Sandy Foundation, and the nickel vs. Bank of America Second Settlement Fund.
Hospice By The Bay , which serves Marin, San Francisco, Northern San Mateo, and Sonoma counties, is d...

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... A research program aimed at using platinum as an exploration guide for nickel has for the first time been able to put a time scale on the planet's large-...ntent of lava flows called komatiites, which host some of the world's major nickel deposits.
"We found that the oldest komatiites have the lowest platinum c...

...lant," Morris said.
The material under study is nickel oxide, which has unusual electrical properties. Other labs are studying nickel oxide for use in batteries, fuel cells, solar cell...ral student Elvin Beach, is more interested in how nickel oxide's electrical conductance changes when toxic ...

...iety , and posted on the journal's Web site.
Scientists have long been puzzled by nature's ability to use cheap and plentiful building blocks iron, nickel and sulfur to achieve the catalytic performance seen in rare and expensive metals. In particular, two enzymes iron-iron hydrogenase and nickel-iron ...

...inum; the new chalcogel contains only inexpensive elements, with cobalt and nickel replacing the platinum. The cobalt and nickel link through the sulfur atoms of the thiomolybdate anions to create a three...

...s.
Around one person in five in Sweden has some form of contact allergy. nickel is by far the most common substance that causes eczema, but the thesis shows that oxidized linalool occupies third place in the list, after nickel and cobalt.
In the study, oxidized linalool was added at patch testing f...

...epressor) from E. coli, a regulator that reacts to nickel ions. When NikR is loaded with nickel ions, it binds to a special DNA sequence. This rep...hboring genes, which code for proteins involved in nickel uptake. If no...

...colour, shape and weight are similar.
The solution proposed by TECNALIA enables the separating of elements of the same colour - such as aluminium, nickel or stainless steel -, employing the recycling of these materials to the full. It represents a highly significant advance over other techniques of sepa...

...c reactions.
Roughly one in five adults in northern Europe is believed to suffer from contact allergy to one or more chemicals. The most common is nickel allergy, but many people also suffer from contact allergy to perfumes even perfume substances that at first glance appear to be harmless can cause al...

... work without electricity. The grippers are about 0.03 inches wide when open smaller than the diameter of a grain of sand and made from a gold-coated nickel "palm" joined by six pointy metallic "fingers." The addition of certain chemicals triggers the hands to open or close. In laboratory studies, the scie...

... Dutch-sponsored researcher Robin Gremaud has shown that an alloy of the metals magnesium, titanium and nickel is excellent at absorbing hydrogen. This light alloy brings us a step closer to the everyday use of hydrogen as a source of fuel for powering vehicles...

...is designed to function like a pump, using osmotic pressure to release drugs into the bladder. The size of the device, which is made with silicone and nickel alloy wire, is about that of a paper clip and shaped like a pretzel. The device is inserted in a short catheter-based procedure in a doctor's office. ...

...ain's University of Alicante and at Rice University in Houston have found that single-atom contacts made of ferromagnetic metals like iron, cobalt and nickel behave very differently than do slightly larger versions that are on the order of the devices used in today's electronic gadgets.
"We've found that...

...ies at the nanoscale, they intend to pursue even better batteries using materials with higher voltage and capacitance, such as manganese phosphate and nickel phosphate, said Belcher. Once that next generation is ready, the technology could go into commercial production, she said.
...

...fferent shape memory alloys, the most common being nickel titanium. nickel titanium offers dramatic shape changing abilities,...enefit of being robust, stable and non-corrosive. nickel titanium is so non-corrosive that it is used for s...

...Technologies (CINT). "Everywhere there's a metal contact, the electroplated nickel grows over the nanowire, capturing it."
CINT is a DOE Office of Science ...anowires between the electrodes.
The nanowire ends were then embedded in nickel by selective electrodeposition over the prepatterned electrodes. Annealing ...

...mplex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures of magnetic materials such as nickel or nickel-iron alloys using techniques compatible with standard semiconduct...ombination of electrolytes and additives to do Damascene metallization with nickel and a nickel-iron alloy, the NIST team demonstrated straightforward measure...

...g passed through the body. The new micro-induction coils are also available in a variety of
substrates. The coils are produced using electroformed nickel cobalt
over-plated with pure gold, or with hard gold depending on the application.
Coils can also be produced using copper. The process starts with a
...

...s the anode with a very thin (5 to 10 nanometers thick) and smooth layer of nickel oxide. This material is an excellent conductor for extracting holes from th....
In contrast to earlier approaches for anode coating, the Northwestern nickel oxide coating is cheap, electrically homogeneous and non-corrosive. In the ...

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...nd GST (glutathione-S-transferase) tags. Six His tags have an affinity for nickel ions which are covalently bound to NTA for the purposes of solid medium entrapment [ [1] ]. For elution purposes a nickel chelating agent is used. GST has an affinity for glutathione (commerciall...

... can be used in affinity chromatography together with a column that has nickel bound to it. Histidine is a good ligand for nickel so the fusion protein will bind to the column. The protein can be eluted ...

... the reduction of carbonyl compounds to alcohols . Another useful method is reductions involving hydrogen gas (H 2 ) with a palladium, platinium or nickel catalyst. These catalytic reductions are primarily used in the reduction of carbon-carbon double or triple bonds.
The chemical way to look at redo...

... the reduction of carbonyl compounds to alcohols . Another useful method is reductions involving hydrogen gas (H 2 ) with a palladium, platinium or nickel catalyst. These catalytic reductions are primarily used in the reduction of carbon-carbon double or triple bonds.
The chemical way to look at redo...

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